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  Robert Angleton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Robert Nicholas Angleton (born 1948) is an infamous bookmaker in Houston, Texas.
Robert's brother Roger Nicholas Angleton was born in 1942, while Robert, or Bob, was born in 1948.
Robert was already married to Lollie, and Doris was already married to a man named William Beck, yet the two fell in love.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/r/ro/robert_angleton.html   (716 words)

  
 Doris Angleton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Angleton became a suspect and was also arrested, because of the upcoming divorce and it's perceived ramifications.
Robert Angleton was tried and found not guilty for the murder of his wife.
Robert was subsequently convicted of tax evasion and passport fraud, and was sentenced to twelve years in prison.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doris_Angleton   (716 words)

  
 United States Attorneys' Office - Southern District of Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Angleton admitted that he was aware that as a bookmaker he was liable for an excise tax of 2% of any wager accepted by him.
Angleton admitted that he ran the bookmaking business and that he oversaw employees who: 1) received and documented wagers from the bettors; 2) created detail ledgers reflecting the bettors daily winnings and losses; and 3) collected from losing bettors and paid winning bettors.
Angleton faces a maximum sentence of five (5) years imprisonment, without parole, a fine of $250,000, and a three-year term of supervised release on each count.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/txs/releases/February2005/050222-Angleton.htm   (649 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Robert Angleton is facing federal charges of murder-for-hire after being acquitted in state court for the April 1997 shooting death of his wife, Doris Angleton.
In 1998, his brother, Roger Angleton, committed suicide in jail and left a note saying that he killed Doris Angleton and that Robert was not involved.
Angleton's attorney has long contended that the prosecution was double jeopardy since Angleton was acquitted of murder charges in state court.
www.officer.com /news/IBS/kprc/news-2002308.html   (329 words)

  
 United States Attorneys' Office - Southern District of Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Angleton was charged with tax evasion in May 2002 and passport fraud after he fled to the Netherlands in July 2003, one week before his trial for the murder-for-hire of his wife, Doris Angleton.
Angleton was convicted in February of this year on three counts of excise tax evasion for the years 1995 and 1996 and the first four months of 1997 following a bench trial before United States District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt.
Angleton admitted that he was aware that as a bookmaker he was liable for an excise tax of 2 percent of any wager accepted by him.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/txs/releases/June2005/050613-Angleton.htm   (596 words)

  
 Angleton's Source for Altered Passports
Specifically, the United States urged for the court to consider that Sarinas' conduct caused a significant disruption of a governmental function, that is, the prosecution of Robert Angleton, was of an especially serious nature and involved a significant degree of planning and the use of sophisticated means to commit the offenses.
Sarinas was convicted of assisting Robert Nicolas Angleton to acquire United States passports, which were altered for Angleton's use in fleeing the United States four days prior to the start of his murder for hire trial was to begin in federal court.
A photocopy of this passport was found in Angleton's possession upon his detention at the airport in the Netherlands.
www.state.gov /m/ds/rls/29352.htm   (494 words)

  
 Sarrecchia2
Angleton had filed for divorce just two months before her death in April of 1997, and she was not going to go empty-handed.  According to her attorney, Mrs.
Angleton wanted fifty percent of the estate.  Additionally, her lawyer was pressing her to report the family income to the IRS -- something that would cause problems for her mobster husband.
Angleton was not a passive Carmella Soprano in her relationship.  According to Mr.
www.kennesaw.edu /themagazine/Sarrecchia2.htm   (881 words)

  
 Dave Kopel
Nevertheless, Robert Angleton was prosecuted for homicide in Texas state court.
Prior to Robert's trial, Leggett reluctantly turned over the local authorities the information she had from Roger; this evidence suggested that Robert had, indeed, asked his Roger to murder Doris.
Robert Angleton was acquitted, as a result of a prosecution that embarrassed the Houston Police Department office.
www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopelprint082701.html   (1600 words)

  
 Angleton to be prosecuted despite brother's suicide note
Robert Angleton will be prosecuted for capital murder in the death of his wife, despite Roger Angleton's suicide note saying his brother was not involved, District Attorney John B. Holmes Jr.
The claim that Robert Angleton owed his brother a lot of money is not true, Ramsey said Monday, explaining that it stemmed from a few months Roger had worked in his brother's bookmaking business years ago.
Robert Angleton told homicide investigators shortly after the discovery of his wife's body that he thought his brother might be involved in the slaying.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/02/10/angleton.2-0.html   (1136 words)

  
 David B. Kopel & Paul H. Blackman on Vanessa Leggett on National Review Online
Robert Angleton was acquitted after a trial in a state court.
The district attorney who lost the Robert Angleton case retired, and was replaced by his preferred successor.
After Angleton was acquitted, the FBI launched an investigation of Angleton, in which the prosecutor's wife participated.
www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel012202.shtml   (1301 words)

  
 Signs of the Times - Prospector Seeks Notes in Texas Murder Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Angleton, who had been shot 13 times, was the wife of millionaire Robert Angleton, who is now in his early fifties.
In preparing for Robert Angelton's murder trial in the summer of 1998, the local prosecutor in Houston obtained a subpoena for the notes and tapes of Leggett's interview with Roger Angleton.
Robert Angleton was acquitted in the murder case in August 1998.
www.loper.org /~george/trends/2001/Aug/96.html   (832 words)

  
 Vanessa Leggett Serves Maximum Jail Time, First Amendment-Based Reporter's Privilege Under Seige
In 1998, Robert Angleton had been acquitted in state court of murdering his wife, socialite Doris Angleton, who was found shot to death on April 16, 1997, in her River Oaks home.
Robert Angleton and his brother Roger were charged with murdering Robert's wife, Doris, after Roger was found in Las Vegas with typewritten notes outlining the murder and a tape recording of two men plotting it.
Because Robert Angleton was later indicted by another grand jury without the benefit of Leggett's research, the DOJ apparently did not need her information, lending even more suspicion to its motives.
library.findlaw.com /2003/Jun/25/132831.html   (6632 words)

  
 Three lawyers want off case of millionaire former bookie - Online Sportsbooks & Sports Picks at Therx.com Offshore ...
Stanley Schneider, the only of Angleton's attorneys who hasn't requested to withdraw, said he helped inform Rosenthal that their client was missing June 12, four days before the scheduled start of his federal trial for the 1997 shooting death of his wife in their River Oaks home.
Angleton was arrested at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on June 12 with an altered U.S. passport carrying the name of Alan Edward August, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Angleton is accused of hiring his brother, Roger, to kill his wife, Doris.
forum.therx.com /showthread.php?t=140756   (682 words)

  
 Video deposition due in slaying   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
An expert hired by prosecutors to evaluate evidence in the case of Robert Angleton, a former bookie and police informant accused of conspiring to kill his wife, is now on retainer for the defense.
Michael Ramsey, Angleton's attorney, told prosecutors and state District Judge Brian Rains during a pre-trial hearing Friday that Cain was now working for him and he then asked the judge to allow the videotaped deposition.
Robert Angleton, 49, and his brother, 55, were charged in the April 16, 1997, slaying of Robert's wife, Doris McGown Angleton, 46, at the couple's River Oaks home in the 3000 block of Ella Lee.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/98/07/18/angleton.2-0.html   (629 words)

  
 TPA Ask the Attorney
Her husband, Robert, and his brother, Roger, were charged with capitol murder.
Robert Angleton, a wealthy former bookie, was accused of having hired his brother to kill his wife.
A federal judge, enforcing the grand jury’s subpoena, has jailed her for the term of the grand jury (which could be in session for as long as 18 months) until she complies with the subpoena.
www.texaspress.com /AskAttorney/attorney0901.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Corpus Christi Caller-Times / Man accused in River Oaks death kills self in jail
Her husband, Robert Angleton, 48, was charged with capital murder and is accused of hiring his brother to kill his wife.
Houston police officials later said Angleton was a well-known Houston bookmaker and had acted as an informant for the HPD vice division for a number of years.
Robert Angleton also told detectives that he thought his brother might be involved in the slaying.
www.caller2.com /texas/tex2360.html   (549 words)

  
 Vanessa Leggett to Receive 2002 PEN/Newman's Own Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Angleton's millionaire husband, Robert, was accused of paying his brother, Roger, to kill his wife.
But after Robert Angleton was acquitted in state court, a federal investigation into his activities was launched, and a federal grand jury subpoenaed all of Leggett's tape-recorded conversations with anyone she had interviewed about the Angleton case.
Robert Angleton was subsequently acquitted in state court.
www.freeexpression.org /newswire/0411_2002.htm   (1323 words)

  
 firstamendmentcenter.org: news
Doris Angleton was found shot to death in her River Oaks home April 16, 1997.
Robert Angleton and his brother, Roger, were charged with capital murder.
State prosecutors alleged that Robert Angleton hired his brother to kill his wife to prevent her from getting millions of dollars in a divorce settlement.
www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=4746   (718 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Reporter's jailing by feds draws criticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Angleton was the wife of Robert Angleton, a millionaire ex-bookie who was acquitted in 1998 of hiring his brother to commit the murder.
Leggett has spent several years researching the slaying in April 1997 of Doris Angleton, whose husband, Robert, was acquitted in a state court in August 1998.
Robert Angleton's brother, Roger Angleton, committed suicide in jail in February 1998, leaving a confession that said he had acted alone.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/july01/2001-07-30-reporter.htm   (670 words)

  
 WARNING TO ALL INDYMEDIA FREELANCE WRITERS : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leggett, 33, has been detained since July 20 after she refused to release information from confidential sources to a grand jury investigating Robert Angleton, a Houston bookie whose wife, Doris, was slain in 1997.
Doris Angleton was shot a dozen times in the head and chest April 16, 1997, by an intruder in her home.
Robert Angleton was acquitted in 1998 of a capital murder charge.
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=113336   (1028 words)

  
 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Robert Nicholas Angleton at a bar in the Houston West Loop when she was 28 years old.
Robert Angleton became a suspect and was arrested also.
A Dutch court ruled that he could not be extradited on the murder charge because he had already been found not guilty of the murder for which the extradition was being sought.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Doris_Angleton.html   (891 words)

  
 American Journalism Review
Angleton's business as a millionaire bookmaker was not widely known outside the tightly knit group of people who placed bets with him, fellow bookies and the few police investigators to whom he supplied information.
At Robert's trial, meanwhile, prosecutors laid out their theory: He hired his brother for $1 million to murder Doris because she had decided to divorce Robert and he feared she would expose his bookmaking operation and name the famous names.
While Angleton's indictment in late January eliminated the possibility that Leggett would be hauled before another grand jury, the prosecution could still summon her to the trial.
www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=2461   (5105 words)

  
 Court reverses bail order for accused killer
Robert Angleton is accused of conspiring with his brother, Roger Angleton, to kill Robert Angleton's wife, Doris McGowan Angleton, in April 1997.
Angleton had not been released from the Harris County Jail before the Court of Criminal Appeal's ruling Wednesday.
Angleton was shot to death when she returned to her home in River Oaks, a posh Houston suburb.
www.texnews.com /1998/texas/bail0528.html   (484 words)

  
 Texas Monthly December 2001: The Inmate
Angleton was one of Houston's great characters: Not only did he take bets from the city's richest and most powerful men, but he also served as an informant for the FBI and the Houston Police Department, informing on other bookmakers as a way of keeping them from cutting in on his business.
They theorized that Robert had hired Roger to kill Doris because she had decided to divorce him and perhaps threatened to expose his bookmaking operation during divorce proceedings.
For his part, Robert claimed he had been framed by his brother, an eccentric, unstable man who was constantly down on his luck and had, in fact, tried to extort money from him several years earlier.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/2001-12-01/reporter-2.php   (1088 words)

  
 Accused killer's suicide note will not get brother off the hook
Angleton in an attempt to flmail his brother, 48-year-old Robert Angleton, who owed him money.
Roger Angleton said he was taking his life because guilt from the crime became unbearable.
Police revealed that Robert Angleton was a well-known Houston bookmaker who had been an informant for the police's vice division for years.
www.texnews.com /1998/texas/roak0210.html   (411 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: Writer who refuses to turn over research still in Texas jail
She was jailed without bond for refusing to turn over her notes to a federal grand jury investigating the murder of 46-year-old Doris Angleton, wife of millionaire former bookie Robert Angleton.
Robert Angleton and his brother, Roger, were charged with the murder.
State prosecutors said Robert Angleton hired his brother to kill his wife to prevent her from getting millions of dollars in a divorce settlement.
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=14518   (573 words)

  
 firstamendmentcenter.org: news
Angleton was charged in the 1997 shooting death of his sister-in-law, 46-year-old Doris Angleton, the wife of his brother, millionaire former bookie Robert Angleton.
But FBI agents told her in November last year that they wanted her records of interviews with Roger as part of a federal investigation of Robert Angleton.
Mike Ramsey, one of Robert Angleton's attorneys, said he was puzzled at the interest in Leggett's records.
www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=4730   (807 words)

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